Z section

noun

Z section

noun

1

A length of steel or aluminium with a Z-shaped cross-section.

The car body is a light steel shell fabricated by welding from top-hat, channel, and Z sections.1958 April 23, “Diesel Railbus for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 276:

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